Episode 37 of Ragnarok Radio is our Sauna Open Air special featuring interviews with Perttu from Apocalyptica and Laura of Medeia who both played at the event.

One of the first during the festival season Sauna took place in Tampere, Finland from 5th to the 7th of June. If you were there checking out the Finnish metal and drinking in the rain hope you had a great time!

The show also features some of the bands who appeared on the day, hopefully we’ll be able to give you an insight into what the metal scene is like in Finland. Kiitos to everyone who made this show possible!

Apocalyptica - Grace
Tarot - Pyre Of The Gods
Evile - Enter The Grave
Swordmaster - Guardians Of The Waves
Medeia - Through Sacrifice
Finntroll - Maktens Spira
Backmask - New Revolution
The February Solution - No Escape
Beyond The Grave - Conflict Zone

 

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It’s been a long time since our last show but Ragnarok Radio the metal podcast is back!

This show focuses on Scumstock the north east’s heavy metal festival that took place last easter, if you were there and gave us a few minutes of your time on the day then you’ll more than likely hear yourself.

Our main interviews during this show are with Def Con One, Antton formerly of Venom - talking about the legandary black metallers last album ‘Hell’, Ben from Risen Prophecy, Ted from Zero and Adam from The Drift (formerly called Vomicide).

Anyway hopefully it’ll give you a taste of what the day was like at Independent in Sunderland!
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Welcome to Episode 35 of Ragnarok Radio where we meet Warlord Nygård of Turisas to talk about touring with Dragonforce, Finnish folklore influences and the genre of ‘Battle Metal’. You can catch the live experience of a Turisas show on DVD with their release of ‘A Finnish Summer With Turisas’, we’d of course like to thank Warlord and all the bands who appear on this episode of the podcast.

The following hardened metal warriors appear in episode 35…

Turisas - Rasputin,
Lunarium - Trollslayer
Forefather - Cween Of The Mark
Spearhead - Decrowining The Irenarch
Bastard Of The Skies - Foe
hAND - I Find Myself
Nerrus Kor - Irreligion
Cilice - God Of Lies
Hand Of Grief - 2 Bagger

 

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Episode 34 is the first in our show’s new format!
From now on featured segments will be uninterrupted so you can listen to interviews in their entirety without breaks.

This edition of the podcast contains our interview with Scottish Pirates Alestorm. The interview took place just after they left the studio recording their new album and before embarking on their American tour. You can catch them on tour right now in the US supporting Tyr until the 30th of March.

Thanks go to the Alestorm guys for chatting to us while the ale was indeed flowing!

The show also contains the following blistering Metal tracks…

Alestorm - Curse Of Captain Morgan
W.E.B - Ressurection Hades
A Thousand Lies - When Im Gone
Adestra - Not The Outlaw
Pantheon - Area Of Invasion
Temtris - Masquerade
Unearthly Trance - Permanent Ice
Black Sister - Vikings From Hell
Mindless Torture - Ashes

 

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Check out our latest videos of Municipal Waste playing at Glasgow Barfly. You view them here and here

We had a request for these to be put out on the site, hope you enjoy them Thrashblaster93!

Photos from the Municipal Waste show in Glasgow’s Barfly are now online at our flickr account! Theres also a couple of videos to accompany this which we’ll also be posting in the next few days.

Check out our latest Metal video added to youtube. Its Blood Island Raiders playing Moorings Bar in Edinburgh!

Photos of the Firebrand Super Rock and Blood Island Raiders show held at Moorings Bar in Edinburgh in 2008 can now be found in our flickr photos!

Episode 33 is the final show in our Women In Metal series.

It features our interview with metal legend Angela Gossow from Arch Enemy; where she talks about her humble beginnings as a metal fan, progression to performer and finally some reflections on women in metal.

As well as the interview with Angela we also take the time to draw a few conclusions from this series of podcast shows. We would of course love to hear some of your opinions on Women in Heavy and Extreme Metal, if you’d like to drop us an email or a comment at the end of this show. Any interesting comments may well get featured in our next show!

Many thanks of course go to The Gossow for taking the time out to talk to us and making this show possible.

Episode 33 of the podcast also features the following tracks…

Arch Enemy - Taking Back My Soul
Bolt Thrower - No Guts No Glory
1000 Scars - New Rebellion
Beware The Ides - Irish
The More I See - Bloodline
Fireball Ministry - Sundown
November’s Doom - Armour Of The Harp
Battlelore - We Are The Legions
Macbeth - Good Mourning

 

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